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09-04-2009, 02:31 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Sweden
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Coraline by Neil Gaiman. Am I the only one able to comprehend the scariness of that book? Some of Lovecraft's stuff has given me the chills, but Coraline completely mindfucked me. I was looking over my shoulder for weeks when I was alone.
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09-04-2009, 02:51 PM
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#52
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Hell Hall
Posts: 1,167
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Mimi Cracra: L'eau
by Agnes Rosenstiehl.
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09-13-2009, 08:28 AM
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#53
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Yorkshire, UK
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When I was younger a lot of the Point Horror and Goosebump stories had me so I couldn't sleep. My dad stopped me reading them at night at one point because he knew I'd be up through the night. Coming to think of it now, I can't really remember many of the story lines.
Since I've grown up, at least chronologically, the book that has given me the biggest nightmares is, totally randomnly, a text book called Essential Cell Biology. I read a chapter for an essay and woke up in a sweat from a dream where things kept splitting and dividing and overcoming me, slightly Fantasia style!
I think at this point I need help.
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09-13-2009, 09:35 AM
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#54
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
Posts: 5,290
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jointed Snarls Transform
Coraline by Neil Gaiman. Am I the only one able to comprehend the scariness of that book? Some of Lovecraft's stuff has given me the chills, but Coraline completely mindfucked me. I was looking over my shoulder for weeks when I was alone.
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No.
I wouldn't say it's the SCARIEST, but it's up there. Mindfuck is an excellent word..
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09-13-2009, 10:50 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: North Florida
Posts: 646
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lord Wotton
Since I've grown up, at least chronologically, the book that has given me the biggest nightmares is, totally randomnly, a text book called Essential Cell Biology. I read a chapter for an essay and woke up in a sweat from a dream where things kept splitting and dividing and overcoming me, slightly Fantasia style!
I think at this point I need help.
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Not to be insensitive to your horrors, but that's hilarious and a bit awesome. You know you're an adult when reality is more frightening than ghost stories, but at least your trippy dreams show you still have the boundless imagination of a child.
My mother's re-reading 'Salem's Lot after 30 years. Already, she's sleeping with the lights on and wearing a silver cross around her neck. That's adorable. I love her.
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09-13-2009, 12:15 PM
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#56
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Yorkshire, UK
Posts: 54
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Yeah, I told someone about it and they started to laugh. Was annoyed at first before I got past it and realised how weird it was.
Hasn't stopped me from avoiding that text book though.
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09-13-2009, 02:17 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: North Florida
Posts: 646
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Yes, I'm very sorry for laughing about it; but I don't blame you at all for avoiding that book! After taking a microbiology class, I lived in near-perpetual paranoia of a miniscule, invisible world of pathological organisms. I didn't even get any cool dreams out of it! : )
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09-13-2009, 02:19 PM
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#58
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Yorkshire, UK
Posts: 54
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I'll get through the pain of my fear being laughed at : )
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09-13-2009, 04:46 PM
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#59
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: North Florida
Posts: 646
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I see you hand-melodramatically-stapled-to-forehead right now. It's great : )
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09-14-2009, 04:36 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Yorkshire, UK
Posts: 54
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Never before has a random comment been so completely true. Well Played!
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09-19-2009, 09:47 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: The United States
Posts: 86
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My American Street Law book was pretty scary due to my realization that until I turn eighteen my parents completely own me and all monetary funds in my possession.
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09-19-2009, 01:35 PM
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#62
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Somewhere
Posts: 123
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I don't think I can say a book has ever scared the shit out of me. It's weird, because I'm scared embarassingly easily by movies.
I thought that Bram Stoker's Dracula was quite exciting when I initially read it, though not really scary. I suppose it would have been in its day.
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09-29-2009, 08:20 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Hillbilly Village, Denmark.
Posts: 41
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Dennis Jürgensen's Kadavermarch.
It wasn't really that scary when I read it, but I had nightmares about zombies after I finished it.
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09-29-2009, 01:06 PM
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#64
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,721
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A Clockwork Orange fucked me a little when I was around fourteen. The idea of having yor eyelids pinned open, being forced to watch shit that would make you vomit once you'd been conditioned....... yeah, that made me pretty squeamish.
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Witches have no wit, said the magician who was weak.
Hula, hula, said the witches. - Norman Mailer
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09-29-2009, 08:13 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: North Florida
Posts: 646
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Asocalisten
Dennis Jürgensen's Kadavermarch.
It wasn't really that scary when I read it, but I had nightmares about zombies after I finished it.
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I really love stories like that. Perhaps they don't seem all that impressive while you're reading (or watching) them, but when they stick like you say, like they've coated the underside of your brain with something noxious and terrifying, then they become genius.
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10-03-2009, 07:55 PM
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#66
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Rockford, IL
Posts: 24
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Ghost Story by Peter Straub. I have read it over and over and there are a couple parts, where I KNOW it's coming, and it scares the shit out of me anyway.
I REALLY want to read The Girl Next Door. The library doesn't have it, though. Sighhhh. I guess I'll just have to go on Amazon or something.
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10-04-2009, 12:19 PM
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#67
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: US
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I Think that The scariest book I have ever read is Duma Key...or maybe it's The Ruins. They are both really scary.
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10-04-2009, 06:00 PM
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#68
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 1,274
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Kind of a toss up between "Burnt Offerings" and "Dead of Winter."
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10-08-2009, 02:12 PM
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#69
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 3
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Carrion Comfort, by Dan Simmons. It just really, really creeped me out.
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11-07-2009, 10:31 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Ingary
Posts: 145
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IT by Stephen King.
Scared the SHIT out of me...
I just want to beat the shit out of a clown when I see one.
"We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it."
-The Breakfast Club
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11-07-2009, 05:23 PM
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#71
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Beautiful Gardens
Posts: 268
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Uncle Silas. Much of it isn't scary at all, but when it is it's full on...
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12-05-2009, 02:41 PM
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#72
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: northern Virginia
Posts: 6
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Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
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12-23-2009, 10:41 PM
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#73
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Twilight Zone, CA
Posts: 37
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Scariest? There are some that can succeed. "Duet For The Devil" by Randy Chandler and t. Winter Damon is the kind of book that few would read it and come out not feeling too dirty. There are horrific scenes that can make any reader including myself cringe. "Crash" by J.G. Ballard. Read this one and you'll find out the Cronenberg film only told half of it. After reading that, I'll bet you guys will not want to trust anybody driving the car for you. After all, who wants to ride with a creep that gets a hard-on for auto accidents, and deliberate ones at that? "High Rise" also by J.G. Ballard. This book is an excellent argument against living in a high rise apartment, especially the skyscraper type. You just can't trust tenants living next door. Who's to say no one's gonna break into your apartment while you're away at work?
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12-23-2009, 10:59 PM
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#74
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 15
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William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist was so scary I didn't sleep for three nights after reading it. And I was 21 years old at the time. I was also a Christian; I don't know if that is what made it scary for me. The film was spooky, but the book is absolutely terrifying. There is a lot in the book that wasn't included in the film.
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12-23-2009, 11:20 PM
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#75
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Where I go to sleep every night
Posts: 72
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Captain Quad by Sean Costello.
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